An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt
Reviews
'...there is no comprehensive work in this domain that would surpass Brugman's monograph in its highly set standards, depth of analytical vision, reliability of information and an overall neatness of presentation.... The acquaintance with Brugman's monograph is quite indispensable for all students of Arabic literature.'
L. Drozdik, Asian and African Studies, 1987.
'...eine klar aufgebaute, alle wesentlichen Entwicklungen behandelnde Darstellung der arab. Lit. in Ägypten.'
E.W., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1986.
'...remarkable wealth of bibliographical material...'
R.C. Ostle, BSOAS, 1987.
'... a significant and highly useful reference text..'
Gaye D. Walton, Middle East Journal, 1985
'...a definitive work in English on various authors of modern Egyptian literature. No library and no scholar interested in the field can afford to be without it.'
Jacob M. Landau, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1986.
'...a handy reference work,...a textbook for both university and secondary school teachers.'
J.A. Abu-Haidar, Journal of the R.A.S., 1987.
L. Drozdik, Asian and African Studies, 1987.
'...eine klar aufgebaute, alle wesentlichen Entwicklungen behandelnde Darstellung der arab. Lit. in Ägypten.'
E.W., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1986.
'...remarkable wealth of bibliographical material...'
R.C. Ostle, BSOAS, 1987.
'... a significant and highly useful reference text..'
Gaye D. Walton, Middle East Journal, 1985
'...a definitive work in English on various authors of modern Egyptian literature. No library and no scholar interested in the field can afford to be without it.'
Jacob M. Landau, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1986.
'...a handy reference work,...a textbook for both university and secondary school teachers.'
J.A. Abu-Haidar, Journal of the R.A.S., 1987.
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This work consists of stories both from Muslim sacred history and collections of tales from a variety of sources – even from The Thousand and One Nights -- used for religious edification or purely for pleasure reading in the Islamic world.
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This translation and study extend our knowlege of the Arabic genre of the maqāma by some years. If translations of the genre are lacking, literary critical studies of it are even rarer. Therefore, the work will be of interest to scholars of Arabic, Spanish, and other literatures, to ...
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An analyses of the evolution of Arabic verse and its relation with Semitic verse, providing the largest so far statistical data of the metrical repertory of Classical Arabic poetry, and offering a new interpretation of the original Arabic metrical theory.
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This two-volume publication provides a unique introduction to the qadisa, a major poetic genre current in Islamic literatures from medieval times to the present; it comprises a volume of papers and an accompanying anthology of 50 poems in 14 languages with English translation.
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The Voice from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of the Corpus Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. It presents a consolidated Glossary and the Indices for the entire series. In a Preface the author looks back on his twenty years of research in Arabian oral culture.
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A Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation which continue to shape its members' collective consciousness. It comprises an analytical introduction, the Arabic text in transcription ...
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This volume presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Saudi Bedouin poets, based on taped records, with special emphasis on this poetry's reflection of the tribal society's evolving self-image at a time of rapid social, economic, and political transformation.
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